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What the Pacific & Mexico can tell us about soft drink taxes and public health
… Tokelau has an import ban on carbonated soft drinks but no soft-drink tax. © Secretariat of the Pacific Community … above). However, a proportion of the population has no access to drinkable tap water, without considering the … also one of the most cost-effective tools with little or no cost to the tax payer for the health benefit gained. …
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Do people who smoke make truly informed choices?
… role in reducing smoking suggest the state should do no more than ensure people are aware of the dangers—a goal … that impede rational consideration, and with little or no reflection on future risks. Any later reflections are …
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Only eight more years to go to 2025: Time for the NZ Government to step up its tobacco endgame
… be legalised at some point next year. But there is still no detailed government strategy in place of how the 2025 goal … 2025 goal is the tobacco-free generation strategy. No longer selling and supplying tobacco to future generations …
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Antiviral stockpiles for pandemic preparedness: Time for a careful rethink?
… the treatment of adults with oseltamivir had no significant effect on hospitalisations and zanamivir … UK experience in 2009 suggested that antivirals were of no practical benefit for prophylaxis in the community. …
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Robust vaccine surveillance shows safety – we need to communicate this better
… has tended to be low priority within public health, with no funding beyond the country’s regulator. Two decades ago, … voluntary reporting, are subject to reporting bias, have no well-defined denominator, and cannot be used to assess … period of 0–3.9 days. Return to normal after 1–2 cycles. No changes to fertility. Ten observational studies including …
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Where do the parties stand? Addressing Māori health inequity
… need, especially where health resources are limited. No. Will abolish Green Outlined its commitment to providing … in it that can deliver for people on the basis of need. No. To be replaced by “a strong Māori Health directorate … delivery of healthcare – it is problematic that there is no role for distinct central Māori leadership in healthcare …
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Improving NZ Government communication about COVID-19: Five suggestions
… government in all non-COVID-19 domains (so that there is no net reduction in the overall capacity to criticise the … transmissible piece of biological machinery – but it has no capacity to wilfully evade our defences. What we need to … elsewhere. 17 These views indicate that such measures in no way render a NZ citizen “stateless”. Article 1(1) of the …
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NZ should prepare for a potentially severe global coronavirus pandemic
… we still have extremely limited data. That is there is no definitive evidence yet of uncontrolled outbreaks in the … of the coronavirus response. Nevertheless, there is still no apparent attempt by the Government to form a cross-party …
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Five Strategic Approaches to Achieving the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal
… smoked tobacco to a negligible level. There is currently no regulation of the design or constituents of smoked tobacco … and some modelling support [16] that mandating minimal or no nicotine in tobacco products is likely to reduce uptake, … that this intervention represents de facto prohibition can no longer be sustained. Furthermore, surveys have repeatedly …
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Advance Care Planning – good for patient care and better use of health dollars?
… infection. When I asked her if she wanted that she said no. The antibiotics were stopped and she died a day later. No one at the hospital had been able to have the conversation …
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